THE GREAT DEBATERS WEEKLY NEWSLETTER
"Be Great! Be a Great Debater!"
BACK TO SCHOOL FUNDRAISER!
SEPTEMBER 19TH
MUSIC! ART! DEBATE! 

Late Bloomers
 
This week we celebrate the beginning of the 2014-2015 Debate Season with our Back to School Fundraiser!  Debate! Art! Live Music! Performances! on Friday, September 19th in Williamsburg, Brooklyn to support the NYC Debate League! We thank the Late Bloomers, an incredible organization that supports the arts for hosting this incredible opportunity!  We will be at 7 Dunham Pl, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.  Doors open at 7:00pm! Live Music! DJs! Art! Debaters! Open Bar!  If unable to attend you can still donate to the NYC Debate League to support our mission that EVERY school should have a debate team and EVERY student should have access to debate by clicking here!  See you on the 19th!!!

Location and Directions

7 Dunham Place, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (http://7dunham.com) is located within sight of the Williamsburg Bridge.  It is walking distance from the L Train (Bedford Avenue) and the J, M, Z trains (Marcy Avenue).  Click here for map. 7 Dunham Place serves local artists, photographers, musicians and crafters and is a center for the growing community of artists in Brooklyn, providing a hub for creative enrichment and conversation. 

 

Day and Time
Friday, September 19th. Doors open at 7:00pm.

Donation
Suggested donation at the door is $20.  Enjoy live music performances, DJs, art, and open bar. All proceeds go to bringing debate to more schools and students in underserved communities of New York City.  Or if you cannot attend please consider donating by clicking here to support our Great Debaters!

About Late Bloomers
Late Bloomers is a charity based multi-media art series founded by a consortium of community minded music and art industry professionals whose mission is to unify the music and arts community in an effort to raise awareness for local art and artists while also providing a meaningful opportunity for the artistic community to give back to local causes.

 

Sincerely, 

THE NEW YORK CITY DEBATE LEAGUE
EMPOWERING NYC YOUTH TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE THROUGH ACADEMIC DEBATE.

Website: www.nycudl.org
Debate Camp Website: www.nycdebatecamp.org
Twitter: #nycdebateleague
Phone: 917-455-1079

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Aubrey
Aubrey Semple 
Joins NYC Debate as Program Director!

We are honored to announce that Aubrey Semple will be joining us full time as Program Director for the New York City Urban Debate League! Aubrey is an alumni of the NYCUDL and has been an award winning NYCUDL coach, volunteer, tabroom director, and this summer, director of the High School Summer Debate Institute. Aubrey is a debate coach at Brooklyn Technical High School and has been coaching for over seven years at various high schools throughout New York City. Aubrey Semple has coached several championship caliber policy debate teams including NYSDCA State Champions in Novice (2014) and Junior Varsity (2012) and Co-Champions in Varsity Policy Debate (2013). As a coach under Brooklyn Tech, debaters qualified for elimination rounds in nearly every national circuit tournament that Brooklyn Technical attends including becoming co-champions at the New York Invitational at Bronx Science (2013), Quarterfinals at the Harvard Invitational (2013) and qualifying a team to the Tournament of Champions (2014) at the University of Kentucky.
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Success Academy Harlem West Debate Coach Maria Williams with Champion Debater Sekou Cisse
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Middle School Debate Orientation 
September 20th, 8:00am - 3:00pm

Huge shout outs to Coach Maria Williams of Harlem Success Academy West for hosting and coordinating our Middle School Orientation on September 20th!  Also huge shout outs to Coach Loretta Brady for coordinating the public forum debate workshop! Please RSVP if you have not already by clicking here! The day will include an orientation to NYC Middle School Debate - parliamentary debate, public forum debate, policy debate, an introduction to new coaches and more!  


BROWN RUDNICK
TRAVEL DEBATE TEAM BEGINS SEPTEMBER 19TH!
Georgetown, Yale, Monticello, Washington DC, NYC, Boston! 

If your school has not signed up for the NYC Travel Debate Team then contact us immediately at [email protected]! We organize a travel pool each year of schools interested in taking debate to the next level by competing out of state at such tournaments as Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton University and more!  And first tournament is Yale University coming up this Friday. September and October are actually the busiest travel months each year with travel tournaments nearly every weekend!  Finally, we wish to thank the Brown Rudnick Center for Public Interest for making the NYC Debate League possible and the NYC Travel Team possible! 
NSDA
Late Bloomers
CELEBRATING THE NATIONAL SPEECH & DEBATE ASSOCIATION! 

We would like to thank the National Speech and Debate Association for their wonderful partnership and resources to bring debate opportunities to NYC youth. We have some very exciting opportunities coming up, so stay tuned! And congratulations to our sister debate league, Dallas Urban Debate League's Executive Director, Nicole Serrano for her new position with the National Speech and Debate Association! 

SAVE THE DATE!  
An Evening to Celebrate 
Art and Debate!  
Friday, September 19th 
7:00pm-12:00am
Back to School 
Fundraising Event! 

Late Bloomers is a charity based multi-media art series founded by a consortium of community minded music and art industry professionals. Their goal is to unify the music and arts community in an effort to raise awareness for local art and artists while also providing a meaningful opportunity for the artistic community to
give back to local causes. On September 19th they are hosting an event of bands, artists, DJs, Open Bar, and the work of visual artists to celebrate the New York City Urban Debate League to help bring debate to more schools and students in NYC!  So please join us for our September Back to School Fundraising Event! 

Location
7 Dunham Pl, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY, 11249, http://7dunham.com 

Time
7:00pm-12:00am, September 19th, Friday

Price
Suggested $20 donation at the door

Why?
Help us bring debate to more NYC schools and students! 

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
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Mentor
Intern
SIGN UP TO BE A DEBATE JUDGE! 

The New York City Debate League is one of the largest debate leagues in the nation. Over 1000 students and 100 schools participate each year.  All this is made possible by our judge volunteers who serve on a Saturday so that NYC youth can participate in debate. We need your help! Whether you have debate experience or never have done debate before - we need your help this year to bring debate to all NYC youth!  

SIGN UP TO BE A DEBATE MENTOR!

Mentors help to bring debate to a school and make that debate program successful and sustainable. Mentors serve as a role model, friend and advisor to their debate mentee students.  And help their mentees not just in debate but college, career and beyond
SIGN UP TO INTERN FOR THE NYC DEBATE LEAGUE! 

Whether your skills and career interests are in debate, education, social media, photography, fundraising - we need your help to bring debate to every school in New York City.  Please contact us at [email protected] if interested in interning for the debate league! 

STARTING A DEBATE TEAM AT YOUR SCHOOL IN 3 STEPS!
Our mission is that every school should have a debate team and every student should have access to the best debate education opportunities. 
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Tournament

Registration is open to all elementary, middle and high schools!  The NYC Debate League provides year round support - training, professional development, curriculum, workshops, outreach, debate nights, monthly tournaments which include student meals, and summer debate camps - anything and everything to support debate teams in NYC. Click here to register your school for the NYC Debate League. 


The NYC Debate League staff is award winning and have coached local, regional and national debate champions.  We also have a huge network of volunteers, alumni, mentors, and college debaters to support your team. 99% of our teachers have no debate experience and so we provide any training and resources as needed to start and sustain a successful debate program!  Click here to make an appointment for us to visit your school! 

Step #3 - TOURNAMENT! 
Bring your debaters to one of our tournaments or workshops! 

Nearly every weekend we host elementary school, middle school and high school debate tournaments, workshops and practices. Your debate team is more than welcome to come watch or compete at any of our tournaments. We also host workshops for new debaters at each tournament as well!


Middle School Tournament Calendar




NEW YORK CITY DEBATE CLUB!  
MEETS EVERY SATURDAY!

Elementary
Middle School
High School
NYC Elementary School Debate Club
The NYC Debate League started one of the first elementary school debate leagues in the nation. Our Elementary Debate Club meets once a month at middle school and elementary tournaments for workshops and practice debates. Click here to learn more.

NYC Middle School Debate Club
The NYC Debate League is the largest middle school debate league in the nation. For students who do not have debate teams at their school or who would like additional practices, the NYC Middle School Debate Club meets nearly every Saturday and competes once a month at Middle School Debate Tournaments.  Click here to learn more.

NYC High School Debate Club
NYC high school debaters are among the top debaters in the country.  If you do not have a team at your school or if you would like additional practices, then join the NYC High School Debate Club! Click here to learn more.

NYC DEBATE LEAGUE PROGRAMS
NEW YORK CITY'S MOST RIGOROUS ACADEMIC PROGRAM - EVERY DAY, EVERY WEEKEND, EVERY SUMMER - YEAR ROUND.
Trophies
White House
10/5 - Workshop
Metro Hudson Debate League/NYCUDL

10/20 - Debate Night Scrimmages
The Bingham Invitational

11/1 - HS Tournament #1
The Fried Frank Invitational

12/13 - HS Tournament #3
The Donors Choose Invitational

12/20 - HS Tournament #4
The Regis Holiday Classic 

1/10 - HS Tournament #5 
The Brooklyn Tech Invitational

2/21 - HS Tournament #6
The Metro Hudson Debate Blowout 

3/20 - Kirkland & Ellis National Qualifier

3/20, 3/21, 3/23 - HS Tournament #7 
The Cit Foundation Championships

4/25 - HS Tournament #8 
The Beveridge & Diamond Environmental Debate Fest!

5/30 - The Girls Debate Championships

9/19-9/21 - Yale University (CT)
9/26-9/28 - Georgetown University (DC)
10/10-10/11 - Monticello (NY)
10/18 - NYC Invitational (NY)
10/24-10/26 -Capital Beltway Classic (MD)
10/31-11/2 - Manchester (MA)
12/5-7 - Princeton University (NJ)
12/12 - Ridge High School (NJ)
1/9-1/11 - Newark Invitational (NJ)
1/23-1/25 - Columbia University (NY)
2/6-2/7 - Scarsdale Invitational (NY)
2/15-17 - Harvard University (MA)
2/15-17 - University of Pennsylvania (PA)
2/27 - Lakeland High School (NY)
4/9-4/12 - Urban Debate National Championships (University of Southern California) (CA)
4/11-4/13 - National Debate Coaches Association National Championships (NV)
6/14-20 - National Speech & Debate Association's National Championships (TBA)


Middle School
MSQI
Elementary

9/20 - Middle School Debate Orientation!

10/5 - Metro Hudson Debate League Workshop

10/11 - Conference #1
The West Harlem Foundation Debate Invitational

11/8 - Conference #2
The McCarthey Dressman Debate Invitational

12/6 - Conference #3
The Citizens Committee Debate Invitational

1/10 - Conference #4
The Donors Choose Invitational

2/27-28 - Conference #5 - Travel Tournament 
(The Westchester Classic)

3/7-3/8 
The New York State Middle School Championships

3/20 - Speech Tournament!

3/28 - Conference #6
The Bronx Science Battle of the Boroughs Middle School Tournament

4/25 - Conference #7
The Beveridge & Diamond Environmental Debate Fest!

5/16 - Conference #8: 
The Fish & Richardson City of Champions: New York City Middle School Championships

6/6 - The Girls Debate Championships

6/14 - The National Middle School Championships 
The National Speech 
& Debate Association


New York City Middle School Quality Initiative Tournament Calendar
2014-2015
 
10/18 - Tournament #1
The MSQI Season Opener

1/10 - Tournament #2
The Brooklyn Debate Invitational

3/28 - Tournament #3
The Bronx Science Battle of the Boroughs Middle School Tournament

6/12 - Tournament #4
The MSQI Championships @ Columbia University

 
10/11 - Tournament #1
The West Harlem Foundation Debate Invitational

11/7 - The Sesame Street Debates! @ Sesame Street!

11/8 - Conference #2
The McCarthey Dressman Debate Invitational

12/6 - Tournament #3
The Citizens Committee Debate Invitational

1/10 - Tournament #4
The Donors Choose Invitational

2/7 - Tournament #5
The Brown Rudnick Invitational

3/7-3/8 
The New York State Elementary School Championships

3/28 - Tournament #6
The Bronx Science Battle of the Boroughs

4/25 - Tournament #7
The Beveridge & Diamond Environmental Debate Fest!

5/9 - Tournament #8
The Elementary School Championships @ The New York Historical Society



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